[Spridgets] Hello and Kingpin bushings?

pdxpete pdx.pete at verizon.net
Thu Jun 7 20:08:52 MDT 2007


Kudos! Not often that you see the word used, especially in its correct 
spelling.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "derf" <derf247 at gmail.com>

> Al is a restaurateur.

The word restaurateur is sometimes spelled "restauranteur," but this is an 
error. The word for the proprietor of a restaurant is correctly spelled 
restaurateur. Both restaurant and restaurateur are borrowed from French. To 
greatly simplify the explanation, restaurateur is formed from the French 
equivalent of the English verb restore and the suffix -tor, which forms 
personal nouns from verbs (two examples are actor and orator). Restaurateur 
is an older word than restaurant. The word restaurant, on the other hand, is 
formed from a present participle of the restore verb. One of the meanings 
the present participle can have is 'something that performs (the activity of 
the verb)', so deodorant, something that deodorizes, and restaurant, a place 
that restores.

In other words, both restaurant and restaurateur are based on the same verb, 
but they are not directly related; restaurateur is not formed from 
restaurant with a suffix added. Since the word restaurant is so much more 
common, its spelling tends to influence the spelling of restaurateur. The 
spelling restauranteur is fairly common, but it should be regarded as an 
error.

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